Capture the Flag Games?

I’d think it would be as simple as a text file on the hard drive… Put a secret phrase in a .txt file on the root of the drive, harden the box, and try to get the other team’s secret.

If you want to get fussy about it, each team is given the phrase by the judge to avoid cheating.

You’d also want to specify the services the box has to run, ie a web server that has a mail form, an anonymous FTP server offering a file download, etc.

If you want to extend it to developers, you could have them write a couple of simple web services, CGI, or network daemon. That’s where it would get really interesting.

Sean